Close to the Bone

Life-Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning

De: Jean Shinoda Bolen MD

Narrado por: Jean Shinoda Bolen MD

Everyone faces illness. Whether it's a personal health crisis or the sickness a loved one is experiencing, none of us is immune to illness or death. While we can try to ignore the reality, Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen suggests we do the exact opposite: face it. Dr. Bolen shares how illness gives us purpose, guiding us towards finding the truth. By practicing self-compassion, empathy, listening, and learning, we set ourselves on a path to finding hope. In Close to the Bone, Dr. Bolen weaves myth, experience, and story to show that facing one's mortality can be a life-transforming and even a life-saving process.

©1998 M.D. Bolen, Jean Shinoda (P)1998 Phoenix Books, Inc.

Rather, Close to the Heart

I listened this book after a life threatening allergic reaction followed by my brother’s death from liver cancer, my other brother’s struggle with cancer remission, my sister’s mysterious series of mini strokes and my mother’s admittance to cancer - all in less than one year. Thankfully, it was recommended to me by my grief therapist. It has helped me get through all of these experiences more than anything else because it finally made me feel heard and helped me better understand what my brother went through before his untimely death and is continuing to help me better understand the fear my other brother and sister are experiencing, plus mother’s unusual hospice journey. I have recommended it to many friends and family as a guide to assist people with their own life threatening health issues and also to better understand, thus have deeper empathy and compassion, for those in their life experiencing their own. Thank you for writing this book!